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While I tend to agree that much of the bureaucracy in local councils can be reduced, certain parts that include real people with real voices are critical, especially with confusion or disappointment. We are fortunate to have a couple of office people that can carry that torch well, probably better than the few remaining actual executive types of which we have none that fit the traditional role. But every council has issues, and money seems to be at the top for most. Sadly, that affects the actual programming on council levels, but it also is forcing units to do more on their own which seems to often be better in the long run. We will never be back to the original structures of even twenty years ago, but we can continue to work on putting our best feet forward and become again recognized positively in communities. Chaallenges will continue, some totally un expected. Having people work from home with local councils can be positive, but the big barrier continues to be aging gacilities and too much "top down" interference. JMHO of course. -
What we need is fewer councils. There's a lot of executive staff that can be eliminated and their salaries can be used to fund program. In this age of telecommuting and cloud computing I am not sure if we even need council HQ buildings anymore; just shift that maintenance line item to camps and let everyone work from home in the communities they are supposed to serve. -
There are several charging over 200 just for the council fee.
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There are 4 according to beascout.org, which considering the size and density of Syracuse I will admit is a pathetically small size. Syracuse is weird though as the city is sort of starfish shaped with a lot of urban sister cities (14 total counting those cities) packed in tight to it comparable to how a midwestern city of the same population would just have neighborhoods. I would be less concerned about the troops and more concerned about the very low number of packs. It takes 2 or more packs to sustain a troop and there are only like 6 packs in the city, about 20 in the metro. The city itself only has a population of 148k which for being the hub of a 600k metro is tiny; the "suburbs" significantly out number the "big city" compared to other metros. It's not the last troop, there are at least 3 more according to beascout.org the city isn't as big as it seems. The fact that the city has only 6 packs is the real problem, I would say that at least 2 of those 4 troops are going to fold within a year or two because there are not enough packs to sustain the troops. This "last troop in Syracuse" might become true within the decade.
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